I have been seeing a similar thing, I get an Oops at 4:04am every day.
I think it may be related to /dev/sdb which is an ATAPI ZIP 100. At
least that is what the call trace and prior messages seem to point at.
Mar 25 04:01:00 localhost CROND[12032]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts
/etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 25 04:02:00 localhost CROND[12043]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts
/etc/cron.daily)
Mar 25 04:02:01 localhost anacron[12046]: Updated timestamp for job
`cron.daily' to 2002-03-25
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is
a disc in the drive.
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: sdb : status = 0, message = 00, host =
0, driver = 28
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not
present
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: sdb : block size assumed to be 512
bytes, disk size 1GB.
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:
I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 2
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address 204f2f8d
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: printing eip:
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: c0160680
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: *pde =
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: Oops:
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: CPU:0
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: EIP:
0010:[scan_dir_for_removable+32/80]Tainted: P
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: EIP:0010:[]Tainted:
P
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: eax: 0001 ebx: 204f2f49 ecx:
edx: d7da1104
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: esi: ca129814 edi: d7556c0c ebp:
c350cc64 esp: c3ec9f2c
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: Process msec_find (pid: 12157,
stackpage=c3ec9000)
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: Stack: ca129814 c0160b16 d7556c0c
c023d0c0 ca129814 ca129894 ca129880
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel:c350cc64 c0141900 c350cc64
c3ec9fa0 c0141e00 c350cc64 fff7 000d
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel:bfffece8 c0141faf c350cc64
c0141e00 c3ec9fa0 c0133d07 c5ea4d94
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: Call Trace: [devfs_readdir+86/432]
[vfs_readdir+96/144] [filldir64+0/352] [sys_getdents64+79/188]
[filldir64+0/352]
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: Call Trace: [] []
[] [] []
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel:[sys_fchdir+199/224]
[system_call+51/56]
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel:[] []
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel:
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost kernel: Code: 0f b7 43 44 25 00 f0 00 00 66 3d
00 60 75 0d f6 43 10 04 74
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost :
Mar 25 04:04:10 localhost : Security Warning: Change in Suid Root files
found :
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 04:19, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> It happens just after daily cron task execution, and msec process is named in
> output
>
> Mar 28 04:02:00 silbermann CROND[18226]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts
> /etc/cron.daily)
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: invalid operand:
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: CPU:0
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: EIP:0010:[__free_pages_ok+42/560]
> Tainted: P
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: EIP:0010:[]Tainted: P
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: eax: c0212a80 ebx: c1213c40 ecx:
> edx: cf4705b4
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: esi: c1213c40 edi: 0c7f ebp:
> esp: c1423f20
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, stackpage=c1423000)
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: Stack: c02129b0 c104 c02129ec c385f5c0
> c1213c40 c385f5c0 c1213c40 0c7f
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel:001a c012adca c1422000 00011fad
> 01d0 c02129b0 c1423f88 c012b0d8
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel:bfb1 c027db60 0014 01d0
> 0020 c012b150 c1423f88
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: Call Trace: [shrink_cache+538/816]
> [shrink_caches+88/112] [try_to_free_pages+96/240]
> [kswapd_balance_pgdat+91/176] [kswapd_balance+38/64]
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: Call Trace: [] []
> [] [] []
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel:[kswapd+161/192] [kswapd+0/192]
> [_stext+0/48] [kernel_thread+38/48] [kswapd+0/192]
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel:[] [] []
> [] []
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel:
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: Code: 0f 0b 89 d8 2b 05 2c 2d 26 c0 c1 f8
> 06 3b 05 20 2d 26 c0 72
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: invalid operand:
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silbermann kernel: CPU:0
> Mar 28 04:02:45 silberman